There’s been a lot of discussion on Twitter about diversity in speaker lineups at web conferences. Lea Verou wrote about the blindness of blind reviews, and while she was looking at the process of anonymized reviews in general, some tweets in and around this conversation debate whether anonymizing the speaker selection process eliminates bias. Zach […]
My name is Stephen, and I’m a generalist
This week I had something akin to an existential crisis. The whole thing was solely in my head, and alarming in intensity. If you ask me what triggered it, I couldn’t tell you. Though it might have been that potential client that needs to learn about how to deal with potential contractors, but that’s another […]
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Some designers are able to operate in that universe where anything goes, where the practicalities of implementation don’t exist. This can actually be a good thing at the beginning of the creative process; without this no-limit thinking, the design process might yield less creativity. Then again, many designers are fantastic at working within constraints. At […]